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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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